Webcams at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal

The Harbor House Bed & Breakfast on Staten Island, looking north across the Upper Bay, with the Verrazzano Narrows in the same frame.

Harbor traffic in HD around the clock. PTZtv states the feed covers cruise ship departures from the Manhattan, Brooklyn and Cape Liberty terminals, and names Carnival, Norwegian, Holland America and Cunard among the ships that come through.

This is a harbor camera and not a pier camera: it cannot show you a ship tied up at Red Hook. What it can show you is that ship on its way out — a Brooklyn departure crosses the Upper Bay toward the Narrows within about half an hour of leaving the berth, and this camera is pointed straight at that water. That makes it a better fit for Brooklyn than for Manhattan, whose ships have the length of the Hudson to cover first. Read your sailing's departure time and watch then rather than leaving it open all afternoon.

The same PTZtv harbor camera, played back rather than live.

Recent captures from PTZtv's cameras under a New York heading, browsable by the last hour, last two hours and last three hours — which is the right tool when your ship crossed the bay while nobody was watching.

An archive of the harbor camera above, so it has the same limitation: the Upper Bay, not the Red Hook berth.